Monday, July 15, 2013

Microsoft responds to Guardian claims about access to Hotmail e-mail, Skype …

<p>4:10 p.m.: Microsoft issued a statement on today's NSA reporting to tech blog The Verge.</p><p>"To be clear, Microsoft does not provide any government with blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product," it reads in part.Earlier: Tech company Microsoft helped the National Security Agencydevelop methods to gain access to its customer data, including chats, e-mails,and video and audio chats on Skype, theGuardian revealed Thursday.</p><p>Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that NSA previouslyhad access to Hotmail e-mails and other e-mails on the company's Outlook.comwebsite. When the NSA was concerned that it wouldn't be able to accessencrypted chats on Outlook.com, Microsoft worked with the government tocircumvent the encryption, theGuardian reported.</p><p>Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, allows the NSA access tovideo and audio sent over the system.</p><p><a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/07/microsoft_worked_with_feds_to.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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